Andrea Davis

Andrea Davis is an Assistant Professor of Modern European and Digital History at Arkansas State University. Her current book project, Santa Coloma de Gramenet: The Transformation of Leftwing Popular Political Culture in Spain, 1968-1989, has received support from the Fulbright Foundation, the University of California Humanities Network and the Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and United States’ Universities.

In addition to her work at the University, Andrea serves as the Book Review Editor for the journal of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, and the Associate Director of the Spanish Civil War Memory Project: Audiovisual Archive of the Francoist Repression. As a longterm researcher for the Audiovisual Archive, she filmed and catalogued oral history interviews of militants, witnesses and victims who survived the systematic violence implemented by Francoist forces during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the forty year dictatorship that followed. As the Associate Director, she now works with student researchers to digitally enhance the testimonies collected by adding metadata that provides users with time-correlated keywords, geotags, and hyperlinks. In addition to making the archive a more user-friendly and media-rich experience, the initiative provides student researchers with an opportunity to contribute to the continuing development of the archive while gaining digital humanities skills. Her second book project, a prosopographical examination of everyday life among Spaniards displaced by the Civil War and vanquished by the early Francoist regime, uses the Audiovisual Archive to investigate networks of mutual aid among defeated communities, political prisoners and refugees.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D., Modern European History, UC San Diego, 2014.

Fields of Study: Modern European History, Early Modern Europe, Spanish and Catalan Cultural Studies.

Chancellor’s Interdisciplinary Collaboratory, UC San Diego, “Catalan Independence: Voluntary Organizations and the Construction of Social Change,” 2013-14. Interdisciplinary project on the Catalan independence movement funded by the Chancellor of UC San Diego and overseen by Dr. Kathryn Woolard of Anthropology, Dr. Pamela Radcliff of History, and Dr. Erin Bakovic of Linguistics.

UC San Diego Mandeville Special Collections, “Spanish Civil War Memory Project: Audiovisual Archive of the Francoist Repression,” Researcher, 2008-2010. http://libraries.ucsd.edu/speccoll/scwmemory/.Oral history project funded by UC San Diego’s Division of Arts and Humanities and overseen by Dr. Luis Martin-Cabrera.

Conference Participation

“Inclusivity in the Classroom: Constructing Catalan National Identity in Barcelona’s Spanish-Speaking Periphery,” Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, New York City, March 2017.

Chair for “Knowledge, Research, and Learning in Modern Iberia” Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, New York City, March 2017.

“Transnationalism at the Grassroots: Progressive Catholicism in Spain and the Protest Cultures of the Long 1960s,” American Historical Association, Denver, January 2017.

“El Plan Popular:” The Institutionalization of the Urban Movement during the Transition in Spain,” Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Baltimore, March 2015.

Discussant for “Comparing the Spanish and Portuguese Transitions to Democracy,”Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Baltimore, March 2015.

Reframing ‘Disenchantment:’ Regulating Citizen Participation and Constructing Sites of Memory during Spain’s Transition to Democracy,” American Historical Association, New York, January 2015.

“‘I’m from nowhere really’: Ruptured Narratives of Family Origins among Anti-Francoist Militants,” European Social Science History Conference, Vienna, April 2014.

Video Presentation, “Democracy’s Orphans: The Demobilization of Grassroots Movements during Spain’s Transition to Democracy, 1968-1986,” UC Society of Fellows in the Humanities Meeting, April 2014. https://vimeo.com/89964801

Co-written with Page Piccinini and Aida Ribot, “Catalan Independence: Voluntary Organizations and the Construction of Social Capital,” Symposium About Language and Society Austin,University of Texas at Austin, April 2014.

“Enforcing the ‘Pact of Silence’: The Struggle over Public Space and the Discourse of Antifascism during the Spanish Transition,” Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, Albuquerque, April , 2013.

“Popular Catalanism: The Struggle Over Public Education in Barcelona’s Industrial Belt,” Southwestern Spanish History Symposium, UC San Diego, January 2012.